Cinephile Sundays: 1966: Andrei Rublev

Ostensibly charting the life of the medieval icon painter against the background of 15th-century Russia, Andrei Rublev evokes rather than explains. The Guardian critic Steve Rose calls it “the best art-house film of all time,” writing, “It asks questions about the relationship between the artist, their society, and their spiritual beliefs and doesn’t seek to answer them.” Andrei Tarkovsky’s work is poetry on film and it is painting on film, but above all, it is cinematic; Tarkovsky understood (and generated) a cinematic language that few, if any, filmmakers can emulate.

November 6 at 3:00 PM